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(Disclosure – I was an investor and director in Appsecute and am an Adviser to ActiveState) Around 18 months ago I was introduced to Mark Cox and Tyler Power, two smart guys from my hometown who were building a…

Recently I attended Webstock, a conference in Wellington, New Zealand that is well known for bringing together technology, design and general brain stimulation. It was a great event, with some awesome speakers but one presentation, by Jason Scott, part…

When the blueprint for the future Christchurch was announced with great fanfare by the Minister of all things ground shaking, Gerry Brownlee back in August, there was much made of the fact that there were a handful of key…

I’ve spent a fair amount of time eviscerating the response to the Christchurch earthquakes from he Council, CERA and Civil Defence. Some might think that my outlook is purely negative. I wanted to redress this balance by posting about…

I first reported on occurrences of theft by demolition companies working in Christchurch back in March. At that time I thought (or at least hoped) that it was an isolated incident but subsequent events have shown that demolition companies…

I decided that, in response to a wholly obfuscated and some might say downright dodgy approach towards dealing with demolition related issues in Christchurch, that my correspondence about the matter would buck his trend and be held in the…

In March I wrote a post that garnered pretty widespread attention telling a tale of what appeared to be at the time exceptionally underhanded actions by a number of companies involved in emergency demolition work subsequent to the February…

Yeah OK, the acronym is getting unwieldy. But bear with me here. Readers will recall my ongoing tales of tribulation at the hand of natural forces and bureaucratic nightmares resulting from those forces. Well I’m stoked to see that…

My post yesterday about our demolition experience in Christchurch certainly touched a nerve – the comments, Facebook likes, retweets et al have shown just how important this is to people. I read last night another article which showed just…

I thought it time to write another update in my infrequent Christchurch Earthquake category (see more here). This one is unfortunately a tale of woe. Last week, while I was in the US, my business partner sent me an…